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The Analyzer Device Integration working group is developing a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers.

“PAT users are looking for true plug-and-play interoperability,” said Lou Pillai, director, strategic architecture at Pfizer. “A well defined information standard and its implementation such as OPC-ADI is a great step in that direction. OPC-ADI can help minimize custom integrations that users have to take on themselves. This directly will improve the time to benefit from PAT implementations.”

“Since its launch in February, the OPC Foundation Analyser Device Integration (ADI) Group has steadily developed in terms of numbers of participants and importance to the Pharmaceutical Industry to become one of the key activities to enable and expedite future PAT and Quality by Design initiatives,” said Phil Litherland, technical director of process analysis and control technologies for GlaxoSmithKline.

“We are focusing on bringing new analyzer device types into the development labs as well as into production facilities,” said Arne Svendsen, head of Manufacturing IT for Arla Foods. “Sometimes integration is needed just to test out the instrument."